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"At 17, Samir Khattab was caught up in a gang fight, “ducking and diving” to
avoid being stabbed. He was “sliced” in the head, admitted to a London hospital
trauma ward, given surgical staples, then discharged. “In my day, they patched
you up, then kicked you out.”
Now, at two major east London hospitals, Khattab leads a team of case workers
offering bedside support to young knife crime victims. In the team’s 12th-floor
office at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, he sits facing a map of the
capital marked with brightly coloured tabs showing postcode gangs. He explains
how he and his colleagues do everything they can to prevent patients coming to
harm again once they leave hospital.
Often this means arranging mental health support. “Our clinical staff address
the physical wounds of our young people, but who’s going to help with the
traumatic experiences that probably got them into a bad space in the first
place?” The team also helps them return to education or find safe housing."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
